picard

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Bugfixes

• PICARD-2602 - macOS: Spaces not visible between items after comma use
• PICARD-2780 - Weighting search results does match non-video tracks incorrectly
• PICARD-2781 - Weighting search results does apply extremely low matching if a release on MB has no release types at all
• PICARD-2791 - Navigation tree in options dialog can be completely hidden
• PICARD-2792 - Unlinked AcoustID results are preferred over results with metadata
• PICARD-2805 - Metadata comparison for recordings raises exception if length is None
• PICARD-2814 - Error loading files with invalid / unknown ID3 cover art type

Improvements

• PICARD-2584 - Handle AcoustID missing metadata
• PICARD-2777 - Options indicate that enabling track relationships automatically includes release relationships
• PICARD-2795 - Display currently selected verbosity in log view verbosity selection
• PICARD-2813 - AcoustID lookup on recoverable decoding errors

Bugfixes

• PICARD-1528 - "Search for similar albums" causes crashes if the selection includes clusters and files
• PICARD-1689 - Freezes when adding tags to large album
• PICARD-1747 - macOS: Tearing when scrolling list of plugins
• PICARD-1926 - "Show changes first" in tag preview window leads to freeze
• PICARD-2088 - Picard hangs when adding new tag to multiple tracks in an album
• PICARD-2091 - Loading images from cover art via drag and drop from browser only loads PNG and JPEG images
• PICARD-2097 - Crash with zh_CN locale
• PICARD-2113 - Script can change title of "Unclustered files" special cluster
• PICARD-2127 - "Lookup in browser" in metadata box does not pass tagger port

New Features

• PICARD-204 - Support for track-level original release date
• PICARD-1998 - Add "director" (for videos) tag
• PICARD-2089 - Support WebP images for cover art
• PICARD-2124 - Add MB release annotation field as %_releaseannotation% variable

Tasks

• PICARD-715 - Chrome to block browser access to localhost
• PICARD-1950 - Fix macOS builds with PyQt > 5.13.2

Improvements

• PICARD-2084 - Use TLS for AcoustID web service requests
• PICARD-2090 - Reenable TIFF support for cover art images
• PICARD-2092 - Improve script editor function/variable auto completion
• PICARD-2105 - Improve script function popup descriptions
• PICARD-2110 - Add %originaldate% and %originalyear% to file naming examples
• PICARD-2114 - Show disambiguation comment in CD Lookup popup window
• PICARD-2125 - Enable CAA Release Group cover art provider by default
• PICARD-2126 - Allow cross origin access to browser integration

Bug-fix

• PICARD-1633 - macOS: Automatic locale detection broken
• PICARD-1634 - macOS: File browser sets wrong horizontal scroll position
• PICARD-1635 - Terminated randomly when deleting files when saving
• PICARD-1636 - Default locale detection fails if locale categories have different locales
• PICARD-1637 - Crash when saving after removing some underlying files
• PICARD-1640 - Picard with --config-file parameter copies over legacy configuration
• PICARD-1642 - Picard crashes on launch (AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'setPopupMode')
• PICARD-1643 - Performer with instruments containing non-ASCII characters are not written to Vorbis and APE tags
• PICARD-1644 - Crash when initializing translations on Python 3.8
• PICARD-1647 - macOS: Plugin enable/disable button does not always update the icon
• PICARD-1648 - Crashes when using search dialogs
• PICARD-1651 - File and release counts in status bar not updated when files get removed
• PICARD-1654 - macOS: Logout button / username stays visible after logout
• PICARD-1655 - macOS: Login dialog can be hidden behind options

Improvement

• PICARD-1630 - Ensure FLAC metadata is visible/editable in Windows Explorer
• PICARD-1632 - Tooltips for genre filter help hide too quickly

Bug-fix

• PICARD-1606 - Crashes on opening options with broken plugin
• PICARD-1612 - Trackpad tap is not working properly on macOS
• PICARD-1614 - macOS: Incorrect 'LSMinimumSystemVersion'
• PICARD-1618 - macOS and Windows packages built without C astrcmp
• PICARD-1621 - Lookup CD dropdown does not list additional drives
• PICARD-1624 - Updating default CD device in options does not change default for keyboard shortcut

Improvement

• PICARD-1610 - Make the labels in Options > User Interface > Colours wider
• PICARD-1619 - Grey out cover art providers list when cover art is disabled

Bug-fix

• PICARD-456 - "Delete empty directories" should not delete special folders such as the desktop
• PICARD-571 - Scripting and renaming font on macOS and Windows not monospace
• PICARD-622 - File Browser resets horizontal scrolling on selection change
• PICARD-765 - Refreshing a release reloads the CAA index.json file from cache, even if it changed online
• PICARD-1025 - An empty destination directory prevents the options from being saved, but doesn't show an error
• PICARD-1090 - Match quality indicators are blurry
• PICARD-1282 - ⌘W does not close Preferences window
• PICARD-1284 - Can't quit with preferences open
• PICARD-1446 - Expand/collapse indicator for the release is briefly missing
• PICARD-1483 - Can't submit fingerprints to non-album recordings
• PICARD-1489 - Crash on start when loading python-discid without libdiscid being available
• PICARD-1490 - Local cover art provider fails on Windows
• PICARD-1491 - Version check when loading Picard plugins too strict
• PICARD-1492 - Can’t save rated tracks when it’s a FLAC file (when Metadata/Ratings is active)
• PICARD-1493 - Crash on pre 1.0 config upgrade
• PICARD-1497 - Saving fails when setting tags with invalid names for the underlying tagging format
• PICARD-1499 - Picard loads embedded cover art with ID3 type "other" as sticker
• PICARD-1501 - Double click in a cover opens it in web browser instead of an image viewer
• PICARD-1503 - Scanning CDROM uses path containing ampersand (&)
• PICARD-1516 - Picard fails to load MP4 without tags
• PICARD-1517 - Functions matchedtracks and is_complete throw exception when run on cluster
• PICARD-1522 - Crash when removing NAT recordings
• PICARD-1527 - Can't resize options window in 2.1.x (Mac)
• PICARD-1529 - NAT tracks get assigned wrong cover art
• PICARD-1533 - Attribute Qt::AA_EnableHighDpiScaling must be set before QCoreApplication is created
• PICARD-1541 - Closing log views destroys widgets
• PICARD-1543 - v2.1.3 crashes when selecting Preferences in the Apple menu 10.14.5
• PICARD-1547 - Picard doesn't warn about not updating .wav metadata
• PICARD-1549 - Source distributions are broken on Windows
• PICARD-1551 - "compare_to_track" method considers "score" parameter only if track has releases
• PICARD-1556 - Default File Naming Script produces "00" track number in file name.
• PICARD-1558 - Setting rating on a track does not apply to already matched files
• PICARD-1566 - Cannot drag misidentified song back to the left pane
• PICARD-1567 - Parsing track number from file name modifies original title in metadata
• PICARD-1571 - On macOS multiple option dialogs can be opened
• PICARD-1573 - Crash when loading release with a tag that contains only whitespace.
• PICARD-1575 - Can't drag and drop a picture from the Google Picture Result Page to Picard.
• PICARD-1580 - Crash when closing options window on "Preferred Releases" page
• PICARD-1582 - "Allow selection of multiple directories" has no effect on Linux with Gtk file chooser
• PICARD-1584 - Crash when disabling script function providing plugin
• PICARD-1585 - On macOS restore default options dialog opens in background
• PICARD-1588 - Metadata box shows tags unsupported by format
• PICARD-1591 - Error when loading Vorbis file with invalid metadata_block_picture
• PICARD-1593 - Picard crashes on plugin install error
• PICARD-1595 - Cursor in tag edit box always jumps to end on input
• PICARD-1598 - Metadata box hidden when album gets updated
• PICARD-1601 - PyPI source tarball misses some test data

New Feature

• PICARD-143 - Add a plugin hook for a file-added-to-a-track event
• PICARD-1130 - Post save plugins
• PICARD-1488 - Built-in media player (beta feature)
• PICARD-1510 - Add a plugin hook for a file-removed-from-a-track event
• PICARD-1512 - Add a plugin hook for an album-removed event
• PICARD-1514 - Replace genre / folksonomy tag blacklist with more comprehensive list
• PICARD-1524 - Replace hardcoded colors by user-configurable ones
• PICARD-1560 - Add a plugin hook for a file loaded event
• PICARD-1594 - Provide $is_video() / $is_audio scripting functions

Task

• PICARD-1353 - Update Travis CI to use newer Xcode
• PICARD-1388 - Document how to uninstall local built version of picard from CLI
• PICARD-1561 - test_file.TestPreserveTimes fails on macOS 10.14
• PICARD-1563 - Add 'picard.egg-info' file to .gitignore

Improvement

• PICARD-1235 - Picard is not responding during start while CD is being inserted
• PICARD-1361 - Add "Launch Picard" to Windows installer
• PICARD-1400 - Remove Amazon cover art provider from Picard and place it into a plugin
• PICARD-1468 - Localize Windows installer
• PICARD-1485 - Picard should show the hours of long tracks
• PICARD-1494 - Use Python3.3+ nano seconds resolution stat()/utime() to preserve times on file save
• PICARD-1496 - Display count of Other versions available once known in album's contextual menu
• PICARD-1502 - qApp.setDesktopFileName (wayland app_ip)
• PICARD-1525 - Log/History views are updated even if not actually visible
• PICARD-1546 - Display in Others submenu is messy for albums with a lot of tracks
• PICARD-1552 - "compare_to_release_parts" considers track count of only first medium
• PICARD-1559 - Allow moving files to subfolders without renaming
• PICARD-1564 - Picard code for parsing response from AcoustID servers ignores tracks
• PICARD-1576 - Open option help context sensitive
• PICARD-1578 - Allow dragging images from Bing image search result
• PICARD-1579 - Dragging cover art from Google image search on Linux drops just preview image
• PICARD-1581 - "Recursively add files and folders" is very technical and hard to understand
• PICARD-1586 - Support for ReplayGain 2.0 tags
• PICARD-1599 - Use fpcalc json output for more robust output parsing

https://blog.metabrainz.org/2018/12/04/picard-2-1-0dev2-release/

Fixed Bugs

• [PICARD-803] - tagging "8½ Minutes" with "replace with non-ascii characters" results in a directory being created
• [PICARD-1216] - Does not display version information
• [PICARD-1267] - 2.0.0dev6 crash in debug mode on Windows April Update (1803)
• [PICARD-1281] - Picard has wrong version string
• [PICARD-1294] - Crashes every time Picard connects to MB server.
• [PICARD-1310] - Picard crashes on clearing log
• [PICARD-1318] - RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration
• [PICARD-1321] - CD drive selection not working on Linux
• [PICARD-1322] - Crash in options on "Restore defaults"
• [PICARD-1323] - Restore defaults does not restore CAA types
• [PICARD-1324] - Default locale not working reliable
• [PICARD-1326] - Picard Save Changes 5.1 Mix Type
• [PICARD-1327] - Loading TAK files fails
• [PICARD-1328] - Loading OptimFROG files fails
• [PICARD-1329] - Picard fails saving ID3 tags with iTunNORM tag
• [PICARD-1331] - Picard crashes on error during plugin install

https://blog.musicbrainz.org/2018/07/19/picard-2-0-released/